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Windows Firewall is blocking Windows Update

Fresh3 days ago
Mar 15, 202682442 views
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I recently uninstalled ZoneAlarm and have decided to use Windows Firewall as my firewall as ZoneAlarm was causing me grief when I was syncing my iphone. Anyway, I've noticed just then that Windows Firewall seems to block my Windows updates. Whenever I have the firewall on, I get a 8024402C error wh…

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I've found solution. I found it here. Essentially I added a new incoming rule which allowed all connections coming from c:\windows\System32\svchost.exe. I wonder why my default settings didn't already have this? Anyway it worked!

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